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RE: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do - Chastain, Shannon L.

Kinda strange I have experienced opposite, my two barefoot horses hardly never slip in grass, wet or dry and my riding buddies horse slips all the time in dry and wet grass and he is shod. We all slip in the gumbo mud at Indian Caves I am trying to learn to say weee instead of oh @#$%.
Shannon
Missouri


From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara McCrary
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 2:29 PM
To: Chris Paus; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do

I would have to agree with this, that shoes on a horse help with traction, on mud or dry grass.
 
Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Paus
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do

I wouldn't say this is necessarily so. Last year, a friend was riding my gelding who is shod. I was riding my mare who has been barefoot all her life. Both horses are agile as cats on hills. We had to ride down a very slick hill,... it had rained thenight before.

 

The shod horse went down that hill just fine. My barefoot mare lost her footing and she and I slid down the hill on our sides, my left leg under her body. Luckily neither of us was hurt.

There goes that theory.




 

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Re: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do, Chris Paus
Re: [RC] [RC] Re:RC What Shoes Really Do, Barbara McCrary